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Allegory of the Disaster Year by Jan van Wijckersloot (1673): In this allegorical painting, a young Orangist shows a regent, wearing a nightcap, an allegorical drawing.In this drawing, the Dutch lion is pictured inside a Dutch garden [] or "Hollandic Yard", a traditional symbol for the safety and integrity of the province of Holland adorning many of its public buildings.
Disasters in the Netherlands by year (32 C) * Disasters in the Dutch Caribbean (6 C) E. Emergency management in the Netherlands (1 C, 5 P) F. Fires in the Netherlands ...
This is an incomplete list of Dutch Republic villages, country houses and castles, that were destroyed or seriously damaged by French troops in 1672/1673 during the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) [1] [2] in the Franco-Dutch War. In this Guerre de Hollande the strategy of the troops of the French king Louis XIV was "to burn as much as possible.
Date Place Deaths Details 838 Northwest of the Netherlands (part of Friesland) 2,437 A large part of the northwest of the Netherlands (in that time the land belonged to Frisia – now called Friesland) was flooded by a storm. Lack of good dikes was an important cause of this flood disaster. This flood is also described in the Annales Xantenses ...
The highest death tolls were recorded on the islands of Schouwen-Duiveland and Goeree-Overflakkee. 305 people drowned in the village of Oude-Tonge. 20-year-old Jos de Boet from Oude-Tonge lost 42 family members in the disaster. [1] 200,000 animals died, 3,500 houses and farms were lost in the flood, and another 43,000 were severely damaged. [20 ...
Prime Minister Dick Schoof issued a statement expressing shock at the disaster and extending sympathies to victims and emergency responders. [ 2 ] Mayor of The Hague Jan van Zanen stated that the likelihood of finding additional survivors was minimal following initial rescue efforts, telling the community to be ready for the "worst case scenario".
The crash and its aftermath were the basis for a five-part Dutch TV docudrama series titled Rampvlucht (‘Disaster Flight’) , which premiered on Dutch public broadcaster NPO on October 4, 2022, the thirty-year anniversary of the crash. It follows a Bijlmermeer-based veterinarian and two journalists who find themselves drawn into a years-long ...
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